{"product_id":"assembling-a-black-counter-culture","title":"Assembling a Black Counter Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDeForrest Brown, Jr.’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAssembling a Black Counter Culture\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003epresents a comprehensive account of techno with a focus on the history of Black experiences in industrialized labor systems—repositioning the genre as a unique form of Black musical and cultural production.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBrown traces the genealogy and current developments in techno, locating its origins in the 1980s in the historically emblematic city of Detroit and the broader landscape of Black musical forms. Reaching back from the transatlantic slave trade to Emancipation, the Industrial Revolution, and the Great Migration from the rural South to the industrialized North, Brown details an extended history of techno rooted in the transformation of urban centers and the new forms of industrial capitalism that gave rise to the African American working class. Following the groundbreaking work of key early players like The Belleville Three, the multimedia output of Underground Resistance and the mythscience of Drexciya, Brown illuminates the networks of collaboration, production, and circulation of techno from Detroit to other cities around the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAssembling a Black Counter Culture\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e reframes techno from a Black theoretical perspective distinct from its cultural assimilation within predominantly white, European electronic music contexts and discourse. With references to Theodore Roszak’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaking of a Counter Culture, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewritings by African American autoworker and political activist James Boggs, and the “techno rebels” of Alvin Toffler’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThird Wave, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eamong others, Brown draws parallels between movements in Black electronic music and Afrofuturist, speculative, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfrodiasporic practices to imagine a world-building sonic fiction and futurity embodied in techno.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDeForrest Brown, Jr. is an Alabama-raised rhythmanalyst, writer, and representative of the \u003cem\u003eMake Techno Black Again \u003c\/em\u003ecampaign. As Speaker Music, he channels the African American modernist tradition of rhythm and soul music as an intellectual site and sound of generational trauma. On Juneteenth of 2020, he released the album Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry on Planet Mu. His written work explores the links between the Black experience in industrialized labor systems and Black innovation in electronic music, and has appeared in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eArtforum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTriple Canopy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, NPR, \u003cem\u003eCTM Festival\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMixmag\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, among many others. He has performed or presented work at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Camden Arts Centre, UK; Unsound Festival, Krakow; Sónar, Barcelona; Issue Project Room, New York; and elsewhere. \u003cem\u003eAssembling a Black Counter Culture\u003c\/em\u003e is Brown’s debut book.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eEdited by Rachel Valinsky\u003cbr\u003eDesigned by Scott Ponik\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePaperback \/ Pages: 432 pages \/ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e5.5 x 8.25 inches \/ \u003c\/span\u003ePublication: 2022 \/ ISBN: 9781734489736\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Well Read","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61093351850314,"sku":"ref1470","price":23.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/6496\/0842\/files\/20260213-1746_012.jpg?v=1772569465","url":"https:\/\/wellread.pt\/products\/assembling-a-black-counter-culture","provider":"Well Read","version":"1.0","type":"link"}